Meiji
"Black"

Taste:
3.5

Texture:
4

Novelty:
2.5

All
scores out of 5

I
think a better description for this bar would be “Meiji darkish”.
On the global scale of dark chocolates, this ranks much closer to
milk than the average. The word “black” would imply that
this is one of the darkest chocolates you’ve ever tasted. If
you’re reading a candy review website I’m thinking you’ve
probably had darker. Even the colour of the chocolate isn’t
that dark, maybe a little darker than milk, but not black by any standards.

As far as the quality of
the chocolate it’s pretty good. It’s not a fine chocolate
by any means, but it’s a satisfying enough chocolate for something
you might find at a corner store. The texture was smooth and melted
in my mouth immediately. My fingers even got a thin coating of chocolate
after eating this bar, which is a good sign in my book.

The reason this bar may
get higher ratings is if we’re to look at it from the context
of Japanese candy (which it is). This is a classic Japanese chocolate
bar that’s been around for a while. Japan is not a chocolate
country, although that’s changing a bit. So if you look at this
bar from the angle of a county that doesn’t eat that much chocolate,
it’s more understandable. Likely when this bar came out, there
were fewer chocolate bars for sale in Japan, and this was likely one
of the darker bars on the market. So at a period in Japan, this bar
would probably be pretty extreme and a powerful dark chocolate bar.